Cocker Power: Are The Mains Being Turned Off?
Derek Grant, Beat Instrumental, September 1972
MANY UNCOMPLIMENTARY words have been written in the music press recently about the return of Joe Cocker to the rock and roll fold after a self-imposed lay-off of more than a year-and-a-half.
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